Sunday, September 25, 2011

A couple of weeks ago, when my MIL was in town, she bought Emmelyn this cute Halloween themed shirt. I loved it so much I decided to make a matching tutu for her to wear for Halloween!

This is my first tutu and I just love it! I made it on ribbon so I can tie it behind her and have a cute little bow! Also, I can add to it when she is bigger. I'm going to have her wear black leggings underneath and I plan to make her a matching bow, too! Very excited to see her in this. She's asleep at the moment. Hmm... I guess I'll wait until Halloween!

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Once upon a time ago, I saw a time out chair and thought, "hey! I need one of those!"

So, I began my search for the perfect chair.

This is what I found:

(That's a lotta blue!)

I started sanding it and then I primed it.

(Be careful, this stuff gets in your nose!)

I wanted to paint it light grey. But, all I had was dark grey...

So, I made my own. I added white, and the dark grey. and a little bit of purple for a nice grey/purple feel. Once I was satisfied, I began painting! OH! But, not before painting some red on the chair. I wanted some red to come out from under the grey.

I intended on sanding the grey in spots and having the red come out. I was too impatient to wait for the red to dry all the way.... sooooo I painted the grey anyway.

I'm glad I did!

I got this nice sanded look with red streaks without the sanding!

Perfect!

(For me!)

This little corner is my favorite spot. =)

It makes me happy!

There is just something about a freshly painted furniture...

The next day, after the paint had fully dried, (Yes, I waited! Yay, me!)

I began painting the words...

My husband suggested I use a stencil,

but what's the fun in that!

The Sun is for my children... I always sing them the song, "You are my Sunshine."

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

We had a wonderful visit with Grammy (My Mother-In-Law) this past weekend.

Probably one of the best visits we've ever had.

I shared some of what we did in my last blog, here but wanted to share some more.

She just went home yesterday and it was very hard to say good bye. We're not sure when we'll be seeing her again. We are still waiting on new orders and are hopeful to be moving to Texas, where Michael's family is. But we just don't know.

Landon was torn up. It's so hard to be away from ALL of our family all the time.

We're looking forward to the future!

We celebrated Landon's birthday on Sunday, which I wrote about in the last blog. On Monday, we sort of continued celebrating. We decided to keep Landon out of school for two days, so he could get the most of Grammy's vacation with us.

We headed to Downtown Omaha to the Old Market and went to the HUGE slides in the Gene Leahy Mall area. It was a blast!

Afterwards we thought ice cream at Maggie Moos sounded like a great idea!

Landon wanted a banana split, so he and I shared it!

Yummmm!

His first banana split!

Tuesday was the last day with Grammy, so we tried to get some last minute pictures in.

Then it was time to take Grammy to the airport. There were a few tears at home.

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I am a 28 year old military wife and mother of two. My husband has been in the Air Force for over nine years now; eight of which we've been married! We have a 6 year old son, Landon and a 2 year daughter, Emmelyn. We recently PCSd from Offutt AFB, NE to Bolling AFB DC. We bought our first house and are in our second year of homeschool. We eat clean and I enjoy DIY projects!
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